Thread: Large Redgum

nice....(what else can i say)

What a beast

Looks old, dry and hard too. Please post more pics when the slabbing is done.

Have fun milling it , who gets the job of sharpening the chains

good log and no barrel up the guts, good luck standing on the back of the ute for the first couple of slabs

Oooooooh yeeeesss!!!

You're only showing us this to make us jealous ...
and it's working

Pssh..It's a tiddler...

Before I stop milling (at some point hopefully very far down the track), I just want to have had one of those BIG logs you have to block the endframes up, off the ground to be able to cut her....

This one would about do it...

Very jealous up in Qld

Bunta, let us know how the cutting goes, I'd be interested to know how much of it is still wet/dry. I've just planed up some bluegum (forest red) and spotty, both seasoned and the spotty hammered my planer, while the Bluey just melted through it - both sure look good though. Anyway give us a run down on all of the slabbing aspects like sharpening, cutting time, managing the moster slabs

Well here is one of it rolled clear & a mate standing next to it with a cheesy grin & all .... i have made a couple of lowlines cabinets out of recycled spotted gum & they flog the hell out of my planner blades every time.

will be milling it the weekend after easter & will post a heap of pics.

What did you use to roll it clear? A can't hook I hope

Yeah I can't fathom how rough it was on my planer to put the seasoned spotty through and she's not a small thing - 13" planer, three knife head, power feed at 3m per minute instead of the quick speed of 6m per minute and she just made it through a 6" board Although I do like the look of spotty all cleaned up.

Originally Posted by Sigidi

What did you use to roll it clear? A can't hook I hope

A 300hp john deer front end loader but even that could only manage to roll it once & we didnt want to bend all the linkages.
but its sitting alright now & is soon to be slabs.....it was destined to be firewood so im happy to have saved it

firewood!

who was the poor basturd that was going to swing the axe and slit it up

it's always nice to save firewood and get something totally bloody fantastic out of it

Always has made me happy rolling up to on old grey nobody of a log and finding pure gold inside, somehow keeps you more addicted than just the normal sawdust

this is some type of ash dropped in my yard by a local tree faller. originally it weighed 8.5 tonne its 5.5 mtrs long and approx 1600mm wide . i recon each slab weighed between 100kgs up to 400 kgs cut at 80mm thick. i wish it was red gum. my thoughts on milling logs this big are ,dont slab them to thin ,they move buckle and warp if still wet.this log took 3 days to slab on my own .the slabs have moved alot ,maybe bcoz they were wet or the type of timber they are, i dont know. but if i had my time over i'd slab them a little thicker. the reason i look so glum in the second pic is coz i had no one to help me push the mill
cheers charlsie